Susan of Albania
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28 January 1941 Waverley, Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 17 July 2004 (aged 63) Tirana, Albania |
| Burial | Royal Mausoleum, Tirana, Albania |
| Spouse | Richard Williams (m. 1965 – div. 1970) Crown Prince Leka I of Albania (m. 1975 – her death) |
| Issue | Crown Prince Leka II of Albania |
| Father | Alan Robert Cullen-Ward |
| Mother | Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior |
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Styles of Susan, Crown Princess of the Albanians |
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| Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Susan, Crown Princess of Albania (Susan Barbara Zogu, formerly Williams, née Susan Cullen-Ward, 28 January 1941 – 17 July 2004) was the Australian-born wife of Leka, Crown Prince of Albania.
She preferred to use the title and was sometimes referred to as, Queen Susan of the Albanians (in Albanian, Suzana Zog, Mbretëreshë e Shqiptarëve). Her husband, known as King Leka, had been proclaimed King of the Albanians by the anti-communist Albanian government in exile in 1961, upon the death of his father King Zog. Meanwhile, Albania itself was a communist republic.
She was born in the Sydney suburb of Waverley, a daughter of Alan Robert Cullen-Ward and his wife, the former Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior. She was a great-great-granddaughter of The Hon. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, an Australian politician who served as Postmaster-General in the ministries of Robert Herbert, Sir Robert Mackenzie, and Arthur Hunter Palmer in Queensland.
Cullen-Ward grew up on her father's sheep station. She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College at Orange, then Sydney Technical College, before teaching art at a private studio.
She was married to Richard Williams from 1965 to 1970.
Susan Cullen-Ward met Crown Prince Leka, the only child of King Zog I of Albania, at a dinner party in Sydney. In 1975, they married in a civil ceremony in Biarritz, France. The couple were later married in a religious ceremony in Madrid.
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